Ghost Sign Harvest #2 – Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma

I’m picking up some ghost signs that I had missed before, and doing a couple of reshoots. Here is a beautiful ghost sign, in Nash, OK, for Kirkendall Shoes, including E-Z Walker brand. I originally found it using Google Street View. I had photographed this sign last October, but I needed to reshoot it with a nice overcast sky, so yesterday I got just that. It required photographing it over a fence from both sides.

I really like the colors on this sign. I also had to shoot around the metal shed. I’ll assemble all of the images when I get home and make a single straight-on version.

There are plenty of other less attractive but still interesting signs, like this one for Chrysler-De Soto.

One of the main crops in the Texas Panhandle is cotton. Here is an active Cotton Gin mill in Bula, TX.

And, of course, every town has its own Grain Elevator, like this one in Hitchcock, TX.

I drove over a rise at 75mph (the speed limit!) and almost had pork cutlets for dinner. A mom Peccary with four piglets were right in the middle of the highway. Fortunately, I was able to stop, and knew that there was no one behind me for miles. Mom finally got them to scramble off the road, so all ended well.

Another day of dark skies and severe storms illustrated by this aviation Vortac against the farmlands in the Panhandle.